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and work of society, and in their individual belongings, that is so unfortunate a feature of the methods of managers; for while want presses, and the “ wolf is at the door,” present needs will have little thought of future results, and those who employ, or the lawmaking and enforcing powur, must he at such time the governing mind.
At the mills in Fall River, Danvers, Fitchburg, Wakefield, Braintree, and other places, there have been employed for years, large numbers of girls and boys, “ knowingly,” who have not reached the age of fifteen years, and have not a day’s or an hour’s schooling in the year; and this with the consent of parents and guardians. A further grave defect of the existing law is in its exclusiveness, in that it provides for factory-operatives only. While in certain regards, as in better ventilation and hygienic conditions generally, the lot of the girls and boys of tender years engaged as “ cash ” carriers, etc., in our large salesrooms and similar establishments, is better than that of